Copying I tunes to new computer

Hi there<
Please can you help me? I have bought a new computer and want to transfer my itunes folder to my new computer. How do I go about copying this?
Thanks Nathan

Hi there
I've just followed the instructions on Itunes Help to copy my library etc across to my new computer, but it doesn't seem to have worked and now I don't have any music or playlists on my ipod, and no music or play lists in the library. Although I do seem to have some music copied across to 'my music' on the main computer.
My old computer seems to have my music listed but I can't sync them on to my ipod as now it's stating that I have used up most of my memory on 'other'. i.e. not audio.
I seem to be in a right mess! Does anyone know what to do, or an official number/email I can contact as I seem to be going round in circles on the itunes help pages.Thanks!

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